Question

I have built an MVC 3 application and I have a Web Server 2008 on which IIS 7.5 is installed.

In IIS, I created a new Site and under which an Application then I deployed all my physical files on that application folder:

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\DeveloperToolsPortal\Application 

I have also configured my Application Pool so that it supports .NET 4. I also downloaded the MVC3 on this server from the asp.net/mvc3 website.

When I browse this application from IIS using the {0} url, I get the {1} error message:

{0}: http://localhost:85/Application/Home/Index
{1}: HTTP 500 Internal Server Error

The Site was configured to use port 85 as 80 was already taken by another Site.

I’ve also added the below configurations in the web.config file:

  <system.webServer>
       <httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" />
    <asp scriptErrorSentToBrowser="true"/>
  </system.webServer>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>

Why is this getting this error? How could I fix it? Which step/s have I missed in configuring my application?

I also tried another thing. I added a simple .htm file under my application and tried openning it via IIS and it gave me the below error:

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

I’d guess there is something wrong with my IIS?!

Answer 1

I added some more features/services to my IIS using the Server Manager and registered asp.net with it using aspnet_regiis -ir and this error is resolved.